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Bambooya Corporation
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Emily SaundersCase IVEY-9B08B010-EAccounting and ControlThe sole shareholder of a Newmarket, Ontario, bamboo wholesaler wants to complete all necessary accounting transactions in order to determine the fiscal 2007 results. Students are required to record all opening balances, the necessary transactions, and adjusting and closing entries. The case is a comprehensive one wherein the required transactions involve cash, accounts receivable (including write-offs, recoveries and bad debts), retail inventory...Starting at €8.20
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Adamac Inc. (Spanish version)
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Emily SaundersCase IVEY-9B09BS06Accounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipA shareholder and employee of a small laser and water jet cutting corporation in Toronto, Canada must make decisions regarding expansion, purchase of new equipment, hiring of more personnel and a move to a larger location. Students are expected to 1) complete an industry analysis of the manufacturing industry, including the current economic outlook; 2) perform a thorough company size-up; 3) identify the qualitative pros and cons of each decision;...Starting at €8.20
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Moloney, Emer; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-817014-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the City. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. It's final provision read, "The parties trust that theirs will be a fruitful cooperation." However, both sides were uncertain about how the agreement would be received. Molly Turner, Airbnb's Glob...Starting at €5.74
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Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
John, Leslie K.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-819024-EEntrepreneurshipBy the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people of Toronto, their government representatives, and presumably his parent company Alphabet, Inc., that Sidewalk Labs' plan to construct "the first truly 21st-century city" on the Canadian city's waterfront was a sound one. Along with much excitement and optimism, strains of conce...Starting at €8.20
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OurPLANE
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Emily SaundersCase IVEY-9B09A022-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingThe president and chief executive officer of a fractional aircraft ownership company based in London, Ontario, must devise a growth strategy and marketing plan for OurPLANE's upcoming year since there is an opportunity to purchase several more aircraft at deeply discounted prices. Students are asked to (1) perform a thorough company size-up, (2) complete an industry analysis of the fractional aircraft ownership industry, (3) analyze competition, ...Starting at €8.20
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Adamac Inc.
Elizabeth M.A. Grasby; Emily SaundersCase IVEY-9B09B006-EAccounting and Control, EntrepreneurshipA shareholder and employee of a small laser and water jet cutting corporation in Toronto, Canada must make decisions regarding expansion, purchase of new equipment, hiring of more personnel and a move to a larger location. Students are expected to 1) complete an industry analysis of the manufacturing industry, including the current economic outlook; 2) perform a thorough company size-up; 3) identify the qualitative pros and cons of each decision;...Starting at €8.20
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Moloney, Emer; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-817013-EEntrepreneurshipIn February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic Partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco based home-sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's city leadership now had to make the new rules function well. By the summer of 2014, the question of how exactly to do that remained unsettled. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) t...Starting at €8.20